A 104-year-old map depicting the driving and cycling routes of Bermuda at the start of the last century has been returned to the Island by a tourist who was given it by her mother.

The brown paper folded map was specially compiled for and published in 1902 and bought by Evelyn Johnson, a visiting American, in about 1920.

She eventually passed it on to her daughter, Nancy Taylor, of North Carolina, who arrived in Bermuda a week ago for a holiday with her daughter, New Yorker Jean O?Donnell, 44.

The pair brought the map into and offered to donate it to the newspaper for its archives.

Mrs. Taylor, 66, said: ?My mother was here probably in about 1920 and then she returned with me in the late 1950s. This is actually my fifth time here though I haven?t been for 45 years, since my daughter was born, so it was time to come back.

?My mother got this map on her original visit here, when she was probably about 20. My mother gave it to me and I had it up on a little shelf and every once in a while we?d open it up and look at it.

?It got very brittle so we stopped opening it. I opened it the other night before we came down here and decided to bring it.?

The mother and daughter, who left the Island on Saturday after staying at the Harmony Club in Paget, decided not to hire bicycles or mopeds to follow the routes in the book and instead stuck to buses and ferries.